abdicate

Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

In 2006, when a popular uprising forced the king to abdicate, Thapa was already a prominent figure in the pro-democracy movement and had been jailed several times for his role in street protests.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Yet sometimes miracles happen, and Senates don’t entirely abdicate their constitutional advice and consent roles.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2025

She looked repulsive, with her red nose, as people do when they abdicate their dignity.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025

It may serve his interests by distracting and deflecting but abdicates presidential responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

An eccentric Danish queen abdicates - will others follow?

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2024

There's a lot of speculation over who might take over in her stead as Lakshmi abdicates her throne.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

When a sovereign abdicates the throne, he does so either of his own free will, or from compulsion.

From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

A few months later, faced with military reversals and urban unrest, Nicholas abdicated the throne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The plan is to invest in “everything our country has outsourced and abdicated over recent decades,” Combs says.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal,” which had its premiere last year at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in a production starring Robert Downey Jr., failed precisely because it abdicated this responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

The tax agency largely abdicated enforcing the amendment, the newsrooms previously reported.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

“You done abdicated my girl,” she howled, “but I’ll git her back. You watch!”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Freedman said his ambition is to build a company that uses data and technology without abdicating its agencies’ creative and cultural expertise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The king ascended the Scandinavian country's throne in January 1991 and has openly ruled out abdicating.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

It is “unfair to say the court is abdicating its authority,” said the ex-prosecutor, who also requested anonymity to speak candidly about the district’s judges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

“If that’s true, what would prohibit Congress from just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce—for that matter, declare war—to the president?”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

He wanted to lie down in this redolent field, curl up in the green womb in the dazzling aura of these mountains, growing warm and drowsy under the sun, abdicating all responsibilities—and sleep.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols